Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Expo: Doomsayers were very wrong

When Apple pulled out of Macworld Expo a year ago, the doomsayers started marching out in droves. I was scratching my head at this — and on the first day of last year’s show, committed to our booth at the show, and as a sponsor. Sure, I knew the show would be smaller (after all Apple had previously taken something like 30% of the square footage of the show). And sure, I figured people would scale back on their booth sizes due to concern and the economy overall.

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IntelliScanner mini unveiled at Macworld

At this week’s Macworld Expo, IntelliScanner Corp. introduced the IntelliScanner mini 250 (http://www.intelliscanner.com/products/mini/), the latest scanner for organizing everything at home on a Mac or PC. The smart scanner and software bundle uses barcode technology to automatically identify, organize, and share household collections and items like movies, wine, books, and comics.

Starting at US$159, IntelliScanner includes everything you need to scan, organize, and share

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Flurry: iPad announcements fuels interest in the iPhone OS

Flurry (http://www.flurry.com), a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider, says that developers integrating Flurry analytics into iPhone OS applications in January increased by nearly three times over December thanks to the iPad announcement.

This represents the single largest spike in Flurry history, with over 1,600 new iPhone OS application starts for January. Historically, Flurry has measured surges in new application starts within its system in anticipation of new the company hypothesizes that excitement generated by Apple’s iPad event in January is driving this growth.

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Expo: ‘Macworld’ announces Best of Show winners

“Macworld” magazine has announces its “Best of Show” winners for Macworld Expo 2010.

They include the Canson Papershow, Carina Software SkyFi, FastMac U-Socket, Frolicware AutoPark, Inrix Traffic Pro, Kanex HDMI to Mini DisplayPort Connector, Marketcircle Billings Touch, Microvision ShowWX, Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite, SachManya Yapper and ten One Design Inklet. Read all about ’em at http://www.macworld.com/article/146297/2010/02/bos2010_winners.html?lsrc=top_1.

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